Nondeserving players who won a slam
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mike danny
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d-quik
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What does it mean?
HitMoreBHs
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Russeljones
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Korda
BeatlesFan
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BeatlesFan
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Muster!!? Undeserving? He was a #1 ranked player and won 44 c!ay titles, but didn't deserve to win the FO?
nolefam_2024
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Not sure many names come to mind in last 20 years from men's side.
aldeayeah
G.O.A.T.
Ferrero, really? 3 clay masters, 4 times SF or better in a row in the French. 3 slam finals. He was young as hell and was robbed most of his career by injury. Man you're drunk
NAS
Hall of Fame
Actually from one slam wonders only Thomas Johansson has a weak draw from atp side from last 25 odd years
TennisLurker
Professional
Gaudio didn't disappear after the French Open of 2004. He also qualified for the masters cup of 2005. That was when Federer gave him a double bagel iirc. He was a top ten player for 2 years more or less, until mid 2006. After that he fell apart very quickly, which wasn't such an unusual thing back then. Before the big 3, it was expected for most players to fall apart in their late 20s.
Gaudio belonged to the age in which 30-40% of the top 100 was made of clay court specialists like Kuerten, Costa, Corretja, Mantilla, Moya etc, and the french open was won mostly by them, with people like Agassi or Kafelnikov being exceptional. And within that group, Gaudio was considered a very talented underachieving basketcase with a great one hander. He won Conde de Godo in 2002 beating Albert Costa 64 60 62, and later lost in 5 sets to Ferrero in the French Open (Ferrero would lose the final to Albert Costa)
His head to head against all the good clay courters of that age was quite competitive
5-8 against Ferrero
2-1 against Costa
2-4 against Safin (all matches on clay)
1-2 against Agassi (all matches on hardcourt)
2-1 against Kafelnikov
2-4 against Moya
4-0 against Mantilla
3-3 against Kuerten
3-3 against Nadal (the 3 victories against pre prime Nadal)
2-3 against Coria
only Federer and Corretja owned him
corretja leads 6-1, Federer 5-0
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Federer has one ballerina sequence moment and earns ballerina status. Those ballerinas with screwed up feet retired at 22 probably have something to say about it!
Third Serve
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If you win a Slam, you deserve it.
The guy that came closest to not deserving the Slam would probably be Gaudio, though.
The guy that came closest to not deserving the Slam would probably be Gaudio, though.
Mustard
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Gaudio did comfortably beat Hewitt and Nalbandian, at least in the end result. Everyone thought Coria would win the final though.
NatF
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He went through a tough draw lol.
Third Serve
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I mean it's not like there's anyone closer is there?
NatF
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Depends how you determine such things. He didn't cheat, went through a decent draw and even had a decent follow up year.
For me it's binary, you either deserve it or don't deserve it so no such thing as being closer to not deserving.
TennisLurker
Professional
Thomas Johansson had a quite easy draw, he had to beat Bjorkman and Jiri Novak to reach the final, where he played a hungover Safin
the Safin half was very hard, with matches like Rios Haas, Safin Sampras, Safin Haas, while the Johansson half had collapsed from upsets, with Hewitt and Kuerten losing in first round
NAS
Hall of Fame
@Third Serve going to write the same thing, Thomas was the only one from atp side came close with weak draw in last few years.
Others One slam winners went through decent draw.
Shaolin
G.O.A.T.
Unless you doped to get there like Korda.
TennisLurker
Professional
If Korda hadn't doped perhaps the winner would have been someone like Karol Kucera. Rios played very badly.
Mustard
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Korda's failed drug test was at 1998 Wimbledon.
Russeljones
Talk Tennis Guru
Isn't it naïve to think that was the only time in his life he took PEDs?
Larry Duff
G.O.A.T.
I thought this was going to be about MurrayGOAT underserving
Federerthegreatest
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There are none except possibly Korda.
Agreed. It’s just a sign of low intellect.I've never understood equating a tennis player to an athlete with the most precise footwork and body control as being an insult - I always considered this a huge compliment. I guess that's just me.
fishpiefriday
Semi-Pro
Korda. Cheating should never be accepted.
Fedforever
Hall of Fame
Pat Cash. Because he is Pat Cash.
Grip n Rip
Rookie
Shaolin
G.O.A.T.
Wow. Really?
He beat
Gasquet
Davydenko
Kuerten
Cañas
Corretja
Ferrero
To win that title. I'd say he more than deserved it.
TTMR
Hall of Fame
Wimbledon 2016 was worse than any of the others on this list.
nolefam_2024
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How did you think Cilic? He beat Berdych Federer and Nishikori without dropping 1 set.
TTMR
Hall of Fame
Cilic's performance wasn't non-deserving. Cilic as a player is non-deserving.
gadge
Hall of Fame
Sam was in another final at RG and she beat Serena.
travlerajm
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Sudacafan
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I don't. I fell bad for that.
Sudacafan
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Only deserved slams should count.
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